Raymond Red

Raymond Red is one of the prominent figures of modern Filipino alternative cinema. Having a background in Fine Arts and photography, he began by making numerous super-8mm and 16mm short films in the 1980s and immediately gained recognition by winning awards and citations, both locally and at the international film festivals scene. He had then begun to inspire a new generation of independent filmmakers, and has since become a regular lecturer and instructor in various film workshops and college film, fine arts, and mass communications programs, mentoring early on quite a number of the prominent independent filmmakers of today. In 1990 he was invited to the prestigious Berlin Artists in Residence program, where he was also awarded a film production grant by ZDF 2nd German Television. He then produced his first full-length feature film “BAYANI”, one of the first low budget “alternative” films to be blown up from 16mm format to 35mm and released in mainstream cinemas. He later made two other full length features, “SAKAY” which won awards at the Manila Film Festival 1993, and “KAMADA” a television feature that won awards from the KBP and the Asian TV Awards in 1997. Red earned the distinction of being one of the first Filipinos to receive a Rotterdam Hubert Bals Memorial grant, and the first and and so far the only Filipino to have won the prestigious Palme d’Or award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival in France for his short film “Anino”. Red is now distinguished also by having served as juror in both local and international film festivals. Red has recently been active in television commercials and music video production, and has done a few new experimental short works. He is also currently in preparations for his next full length feature.